“I was here during the tail end of the examination and knew he planned to come back out and play if he were needed,” Jones told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, like it was a normal practice for the owner. “Of course he was needed. I felt good that he could come back out. When he saw the opportunity he did. I told Jason that he would be back in.”

Last December, Romo underwent back surgery to repair a herniated disk. It was the second straight offseason he had to undergo a back operation. Jones made sure he was OK this time.

Tony Romo takes a knee to his surgically-repaired back.Getty Images

“We knew there were no structural issues when they gave him the X-rays,” Jones said. “I very concerned the fact that he laid there as long as he laid there. After we looked at the play and saw that was a knee kind of to the side of the back, then we felt better about it.

“We got him in here and looked at it real carefully everybody felt better about it. But he was certainly limited when he first got in here, but he loosened it up real good and went back out.”

After Romo went back in, Jones remained on the sideline. Garrett must have loved that.